Hi Everyone ... Hope you're all well ... Just joined today, Virgin here, but long time marketer (online & offline) I used to advertise my products in newspapers from 1996 till 2004 when newspaper readership turned into a paper turd that it was going to become eventually ... Still I used to make $450,000 -$500,000 a year in that time ... the off line marketing game was indeed good for what it was worth ... Just wondering if anyone out here is familiar with advertising down-under (AU) on the Gumtree classifieds site, which is now owned by ebay. I am semi-retired in Thailand and of course need to use Proxies to be able to place ads ... I've been using various VPS Hosting companies and always set up 20-30 different IP's/Proxies (squid script on Ubuntu) with each VPS Account - to set up my Gumtree accounts and promote main-stream affiliate products (CB) on gumtree for over a year now, everything worked great for over one year. Averaging $800-1,200 a week ... $$ Goes a long way in Thailand. As I mentioned, I promote Affiliate Products and - Exclusively only advertise on "Gumtree". Everything was going FINE until last Thursday, when I discovered that I could not LOG INTO Any of my current GUMTREE Accounts. That being said, my ads under any of my accounts are still live, not been deleted, I just usually log in and upgrade "bump up" the ads for $1.99, etc. So they get back on the front page! This time when i tried to log in Gumtree - into my accounts, it would show me this message: ************************************************** ****************** Sorry, this email and password combination is not known. Please try again later. Don't forget that you can still post Ads without being signed in. ************************************************** ****************** The Ironic thing is that If I request a password change, gumtree allows me to do that and than when i try to log in with the new password, the same message pops up. So - the accounts are active, but gumtree won't let me log in to any of them. And Yes I set up a different IP/Proxy with a brand New/Fresh "Hotmail or Yahoo" Email. In the past if my ads got flagged, they would than ban the IP after a few weeks of this happening) I actually used to get 2-3 different email accounts on each IP Address before they blocked the IP/Proxy. The 30 new IP/Proxies I just set up 2 weeks ago were working fine. I set up Gumtree Accounts on the first 10 of these IP's and posted a few ads, worked fine since beginning of June, until last thursday (14th June) like I mentioned. THIS IS WHEN IT GETS TRICKY ... AND I CANT WORK OUT WHY Now the remaining 20 IPs in that range were unused, I even tried to set up a new accounts on them (previously unused IP's) and the registration process goes fine, ? get the confirmation email from Gumtree, to confirm the new account, etc. ... Than when I try to log in with this Brand new/Never used Account on a fresh IP it won't let me log in and the same message as above appears on the gumtree log in page! !#?? SO NOW BASICALLY EVEN THE BRAND NEW IP'S ARE BEING BLOCKED?! ** So I am curious to know whether you are aware of any security / firewall upgrades on the Gumtree site in Oz? ? That would detect proxies? ** Because the Gumtree accounts are active, as my mate in Aussie can log into one of my accounts, but I can't with using the corresponding proxy!? ** Do you think there is a possibility that they have a new system in place that would "Bulk Block" all the IPs in a particular range? Or exclusively block all IP's originating from my Host. ** Would you suggest trying a Completely new VPS - Web host that will provide a whole new range of IP's? ? Or is there a known solution to this problem? ** Has this happened to you or did you hear of anyone else having recent log in problems with gumtree? ANY AND ALL ADVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED ? SORRY IF THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT SECTION TO POST THIS THREAD ... NOT SURE WHERE TO START Look forward to your reply ?
